A man with a club is a law-maker.
JACK LONDONHe had come to know quite thoroughly the world in which he lived. His outlook was bleak and materialistic. The world as he saw it was a fierce and brutal world, a world without warmth, a world in which caresses and affection and the bright sweetness of spirit did not exist.
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I would rather be ashes than dust.
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There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.
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I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.
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No; I did not hate him. The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings. I can say only that I knew the gnawing of a desire for vengeance on him that was a pain in itself and that exceeded all the bounds of language.
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One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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I was five years old the first time I got drunk.
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Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.
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As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.
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But I am I. And I won’t subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind
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I’d rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet.
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Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time.
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Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.
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Some sorts of truth are truer than others.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
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I believe that when I am dead, I am dead. I believe that with my death I am just as much obliterated as the last mosquito you and I squashed.
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Too much is written by the men who can’t write about the men who do write.
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Strength is an empty shell.
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The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
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Don’t write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.
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I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
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The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
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He was a killer, a thing that preyed, living on the things that lived, unaided, alone, by virtue of his own strength and prowess, surviving triumphantly in a hostile environment where only the strong survive.
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